Remembrance Day!

The news is spread far and wide Another comrade and soldier sadly died A sunset vigil upon the desert sand As a soldier leaves this foreign land

We stand alone,and yet as one In the fading light of a setting sun We've all gathered to say good bye To our fallen comrade and soldier who's set to fly The eulogy's read about their life Sometimes with words from friends or wife's We all know when Co's done What kind of soldier they'd become The padre then cause us all to pray The bugler has last post to play The cannon roars and belches angrily with flames We will read, with pride their name

A minute's silence stood in place As tears roll down the hardest faces Deafening silence fills the air With each of us in personal prayer Reveille sounds and parade is done The hero remembered, forgotten by none They leave to start the journey back In a coffin all draped in the Union Jack!

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